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Brian Jeffries: 'Not green enough' Hickenlooper?

Posted:
04/26/2013 04:14:18 PM MDT

Updated:
04/26/2013 04:14:57 PM MDT

I crossed over and voted for Hickenlooper in his last election and am inclined to do so next time if he runs. I appreciate that as a geologist he understands where oil and gas deposits are found and how those products are extracted. I am confident that he harbors no desire to see oil and gas drilling in Rocky Mountain National Park, as a recent writer suggested.

Hickenlooper's biggest obstacle to re-election seems to be those of his own party who don't view him as green enough for their support. For some, being green enough is a tall order, as demonstrated by a recent op-ed piece objecting to efforts by the Environmental Defense Fund to collaborate with the oil and gas industry to develop best practice standards. It would be hard to find an entity that has been a bigger or more litigious foe to oil and gas development over the years than the EDF.

Whether the defection of this "not green enough" segment of Hickenlooper's past support will doom him in the fashion of Ross Perot to George H.W. Bush or Ralph Nader to Al Gore will be interesting to watch.

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